Industrielle Beziehungen

Trade unions in Germany are experiencing a resurgence. Recent disputes in the public sector demonstrate that building organizational power requires linking employees’ immediate interests with the common good. In this article, we argue that in...

Over the past two decades, care work has become an important topic in public discourse, which have largely revolved around diagnoses of crisis and the modernization potential of care. In this article we focus on how care workers in different sectors...

The article discusses a number of proposals for the reform of regulations governing the still widespread use of atypical employment forms. We distinguish between mini-jobs, midi-jobs, fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work and also include solo...

In this article, I propose to expand and reformulate existing power resource approaches by incorporating emotional power into their domain. Emotions have so far received no systematic attention by trade union research. While some promising...

Staff councils represent employees and civil servants in the German public sector and are key actors in co-determination. Nevertheless, so far, they have received only little attention in both public discourses and industrial relations research....

Drawing on a case study of construction work in Switzerland, this article explores the potential application of labour process theory (LPT) to analysis of climate change-related work conflicts. A multi-level analysis promises to aid in the...